Captain Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger has said that he believes that it could be over water at night. American Airlines Flight bumped with a helicopter and kills 67 people.
Sully, who landed a passenger plane famous On the Hudson River in 2009, the New York Times said that the two factors could have made avoiding the helicopter more difficult.
He said: 'There would have been fewer basic lights that was visible on the water at night than over the country. '
According to Sully, this has made it a bit harder to see '.
The 74-year-old added: 'Nighttime always makes things different from seeing other planes-in principle you can only see the lights on them.
'You have to try to find out: are they above you or below you? Or how far away? Or which direction do they go? Everything is more difficult at night. “
Sully told the outlet valve that he hoped that the cockpit-speech recorder, the data recorder of the Inflight and the air control schemes would help clear what went wrong.
He added: 'I was just destroyed by this. We have the obligation to learn and improve from every failure. '
Sully, who famous a passenger plane landed on the Hudson River in 2009, told the New York Times that the two factors could have been avoided to avoid the chopper harder
Rescue teams are looking for the wreck of a commercial aircraft that collided with a military helicopter in Washington
The collision for the air between the army helicopter and the Jet from Kansas near Reagan National Airport killed all 64 people on board.
Three soldiers had been to the helicopter at the time of the incident and had been on a training mission. They also died in the collision that brought the death toll to 67.
Sully stood behind the yoke of US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009 when the double engine error came across after it collided with a herd of geese after taking out Laguardia Airport in New York City.
All 155 people on board survived the crash of the plane landed in the Hudson River, which has since been called the 'Miracle on the Hudson'.
Sully was depicted by Tom Hanks in the 2016 film named after him about the flight that Clint Eastwood directed.
Rescue crews were able to dig through the wreck on Thursday evening Two black boxes from the waters of the Potomac River.
This will be monumental help for the authorities while investigating what exactly happened in the moments that lead to a disaster.
A provisional report has said that the airport staff at the airport 'was not normal for the time of the day and traffic volume.
Reagan National has been understaffed for many years, with only 19 fully certified controllers from September 2023 – well below the goal of 30 – according to the most recent air traffic controller that has been submitted to the congress.
Sully was behind the yoke of US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009 when the double engine error came across after it collided with a herd of geese
All 155 people on board survived the crash of the plane that is seen here in the Hudson River, which has since been called the 'Wonder on the Hudson'
Reagan National has been understaffed for many years, with only 19 fully certified controllers from September 2023 – well below the goal of 30
The situation seemed to have been improved since then, because a source told that CNN the Reagan National Control Tower was manned by 24 out of the 28 positions.
Chronic understaffing with air traffic controllers is nothing new, with known causes, including high turnover and cuts. Controllers often work 10 hours, six days a week, to fill the void.
The provisional crash report showed that the lack of staff meant that the controller monitoring and the management of helicopters near DCA also instructed instructions of aircraft and landing and leaving on the runways.
Usually two controllers would handle these roles, because the staff use two different radio frequencies to talk to aircraft and helicopter pilots.
Emergency Response Teams, including Washington, DC Fire and EMS, DC Police and others, assess the plane wreck in the Potomac River
Since then, at least 40 bodies from the Potomac River have been drawn after extensive recovery missions by emergency teams.
The bodies of all four members of the cockpit crew – including someone who was only a few months away from a promotion and wedding – were also recovered from the rubble on Thursday.
The pilots of the American Eagle Jet were Captain Jonathan Campos, 34, and first officer Samuel Lilley, Dailymail.com exclusively revealed.
And both flight attendants that were on that tragic flight have been revealed as Ian Epstein and Danasia Elder.
In a situation creepy comparable to what happened on Wednesday evening, a Republic Airways flight had to break the landing at the airport on Tuesday after a helicopter appeared near his flight path.
Flighttradar data for the flight show that the Windsor Locks plane had traveled to the city in Connecticut and had to get the height dramatically shortly after descending at Reagan National Airport. It eventually landed safely.
